Glass – including bottles and jam jars (but remember to wash them first)

Plastic – including bottles (but remember to wash them first). Not all plastics can be recycled – for example plastic wrapping cannot be recycled currently. Check with your local council what they recycle

Cardboard – including cereal boxes, packing boxes

Paper – including Christmas and birthday cards, newspapers, envelopes, as well as drawing paper

Mobile phones

Old fruit and vegetables in your compost bin

If we reduce, reuse and recycle we can save energy and also save money!

Did you know that…?

70% less energy is required to recycle paper compared with making it from raw materials

The unreleased energy contained in the average dustbin each year could power a television for 5,000 hours

Up to 80% of a vehicle can be recycled

Recycling also causes less pollution than starting from scratch. For example, if we recycle old bottles we can cut pollution by a fifth and halve the demand for water!